Faculty Members and Research Interests

Faculty members in the School of Kinesiology are engaged in impactful research across a number of areas related to human movement. Click on a faculty member's name to view their full profile and learn more about their research.

  • Core Faculty Members

  • Affiliated Supervisors

Adam Ali

Adam Ali
  • Sport, Race and Colonialism
  • Sport, Terrorism and Radicalization
  • Sport and Communication
  • Sport and Emotion

Research Supervision: Sociocultural Studies

Hayley Baker

Hayley Baker
  • Gender, leadership, and sport
  • Safe sport practices
  • Gender-based violence in sport
  • Sport policy

Bob Barney

Bob Barney
  • History of the Modern Olympic Games
  • History of Olympic Commercialism
  • Canadian "nation-building" through the Olympic Games
  • 19th Century Baseball-Heritage- Halls of Fame, Ballparks

Research Supervision: Sociocultural Studies

Glen Belfry

Glen Belfry
  • Physiology and biochemistry of exercise training
  • Exercise and testing protocols to enhance body composition in youth

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Kevin Boldt

Kevin Boldte
  • Understanding the mechanisms of adaptation to exercise
  • Enhancing Cardiovascular and muscular adaptation to exercise and diet
  • Muscle and exercise mechanics

Anita Christie

Anita Christie
  • Neuromuscular function
  • Neurophysiological and functional changes with advanced age
  • Neurophysiological and functional changes following mild traumatic brain injury

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Karen Danylchuk

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  • Sport marketing
  • Internationalization in education and sport management
  • Sport management curriculum
  • Intercollegiate athletics
  • Women in sport
  • Participation in sport

Research Supervision: Management and Leadership

Jim Dickey

Jim Dickey
  • Biomechanics
  • Tissue mechanics
  • Joint mechanics
  • Joint injury
  • In-vivo studies of whole-body vibration (exercise platforms and occupational exposures)

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Alison Doherty

Alison Doherty
  • Capacity and management of nonprofit and community-based organizations for safe and inclusive sport and physical activity
  • Concussion in youth sport
  • Safe (and unsafe) sport culture
  • Women in sport leadership
  • Integration of newcomers in and through organized sport

Research Supervision: Management and Leadership

Molly Driediger

Molly Driediger
  • Physical activity among preschoolers
  • Program implementation and evaluation
  • Children's perspectives
  • Psychological interventions (e.g., imagery use, self-efficacy)
  • Self-presentation and social physique anxiety

Research Supervision: TBA

Katelyn Esmonde

Katelyn Esmonde
  • Digital Health
  • Public Health Ethics
  • Physical Activity

Research Supervision: Sociocultural Studies

Kayla Fewster

Kayla Fewster
  • Biomechanics
  • Low Back Pain
  • Lumbar Spine

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Matthew Heath

Matthew Heath
  • Brain health and plasticity associated with exercise
  • Executive function, mild traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative disease
  • The visual control of eye and limb movements
  • Multisensory interactions between acoustic, proprioceptive and visual information

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences, Psychological Basis of Kinesiology

Michael Herbert

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  • Assessments in Exercise Physiology

David Howe

David Howe
  • Culture of disability
  • Embodied philosophical ethnography
  • Ethics of (dis)ability
  • Health and (dis)ability
  • Health and marginalised population

Research Supervision: Sociocultural Studies

Dave Humphreys

Dave Humphreys
  • Athletic Injuries

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Tom Jenkyn

Tom Jenkyn
  • Orthopaedic biomechanics
  • Advanced medical imaging
  • Musculoskeletal computational modeling
  • Injury causation biomechanics
  • Sport science

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Daniel Keir

Daniel Keir
  • Aerobic exercise assessment prescription, and training
  • Exercise-training based cardiac rehabilitation
  • Respiratory, cardiovascular and metabolic control during exercise
  • Mechanisms determining exercise (in)tolerance
  • Chemoreflex control of breathing and the circulation
  • Integrative regulation of the sympathetic nervous system

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Peter Lemon

Peter Lemon
  • Macronutrient (CHO, FAT, PRO) ingestion timing and exercise performance
  • Food supplements and health and/or exercise performance
  • Training and exercise performance
  • Exercise and body composition changes

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Sean McWatt

Sean McWatt
  • Human Anatomy Education
  • Extended Reality and Spatial Ability
  • Alternative Assessment and Approaches to Learning
  • Qualitative and Mixed Methods

Jamie Melling

Jamie Melling
  • Roles and mechanisms of intracellular molecular signaling pathways in the development of cardiovascular disease/complications associated with Type I diabetes
  • Neurological influence of adrenergic signaling in the expression of stress-related cardioprotective proteins in the heart and vasculature
  • Cellular mechanisms involved in exercise-related reductions in glycemia in Type 1 diabetes

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Laura Misener

Laura Misener
  • Social Impact of sport and events
  • Disability sport and Paralympic Games
  • Safety in sport
  • Intersections of sport, physical activity, and health
  • Sport policy

Research Supervision: Sociocultural Studies, Management and Leadership

Marc Mitchell

Marc Mitchell
  • Physical Activity and Health
  • Digital Intervention
  • Behavioural Insights

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences, Psychological Basis of Kinesiology

Michelle Mottola

Michelle Mottola
  • Effects of maternal exercise on carbohydrate metabolism and fetal outcome
  • Effects of nutritional intake and maternal exercise on gestational diabetes
  • Prevention of childhood obesity through early intervention during pregnancy and post delivery
  • Nutrition & Exercise Lifestyle Intervention Program (NELIP) for overweight and obese pregnant women
  • Be Healthy In Pregnancy (B-HIP) with Nutrition and Exercise (with McMaster University)
  • Stroller walking program for postpartum women for safe weight loss after delivery
  • Effects of a bed-rest-exercise intervention on hospitalized high risk pregnant women

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Lindsay Nagamatsu

Lindsay Nagamatsu
  • Effects of exercise on cognitive function and neural plasticity
  • Cognitive risk factors for falls
  • Functional neuroimaging (EEG and fMRI)
  • Healthy aging

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Derek Pamukoff

Derek Pamukoff
  • Biomechanical and neuromuscular function after joint injury and in obesity
  • Post-traumatic osteoarthritis development
  • Running-related performance, injury prevention and rehabilitation

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Eva Pila

Eva Pila
  • Body image and mental health
  • Emotions and motivation related to exercise
  • Intersections of social identity, body, and physical activity
  • Conditions that disproportionately impact women’s health (e.g., weight stigma, eating disorders, breast cancer)

Research Supervision: Psychological Basis of Kinesiology

Harry Prapavessis

Harry Prapavessis
  • Interventions to increase physical activity and decrease sedentary behavior
  • Exercise as a therapy to improve health
  • The role of psychological factors in the prediction, prevention and recovery of injury

Research Supervision: Psychological Basis of Kinesiology

Charles Rice

Charles Rice
  • Human neuromuscular physiology and anatomy
  • Muscle strength, fatigue, and exercise
  • Neuromuscular aspects of adult aging

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Mac Ross

Mac Ross
  • Sport and Communication
  • Sport and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
  • Sport for Development
  • Social History of Sport
  • Sport and Gender
  • Sport and Race

Research Supervision: Sociocultural Studies, Management and Leadership

Angela Schneider

Angela Schneider
  • Genetic Doping in Sport
  • Olympic Studies
  • Women and Sport and Embodiment
  • Philosophy of Sport
  • Sport Medicine Ethics

Research Supervision: Sociocultural Studies in Kinesiology

Kevin Shoemaker

Kevin Shoemaker
  • Neural discharge patterns and their impact on neurotransmitter release and vascular control
  • Reflex cardiovascular control in integrated systems
  • Forebrain modification of autonomic and cardiovascular regulation
  • Regulation of blood flow to nerves
  • Impact of vascular disease on neural (e.g., brain and peripheral nerves) blood flow, structure and function
  • Exercise and neuroprotection

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Georgia Teare

Georgia Teare
  • Sport Event Leveraging
  • Social Impacts of Sport Events
  • Youth Sport and Physical Activity Participation
  • Youth Sport Consumer Behaviour
  • Community Sport

Research Supervision: Management and Leadership

Jim Weese

Jim Weese
  • Sport Leadership
  • Executive Leadership Development
  • Higher education

Research Supervision: Management and Leadership

Greg Alcock

Greg Alcock
  • Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine
  • Clinical Outcome Measures
  • Lower Extremity Injuries

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Trevor Birmingham

Trevor Birmingham
  • Musculoskeletal rehabilitation
  • Clinical Biomechanics

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Dianne Bryant

Dianne Bryant
  • Health promotion
  • Development/evaluation of novel study designs to overcome barriers to conducting research in clinical settings
  • Evaluation of rehabilitative and surgical interventions
  • Development/evaluation of measurement instruments/quality of life

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Shauna Burke

Shauna Burke
  • Infant, child, and youth health
  • Childhood obesity
  • Measurement and promotion of physical activity in children and adults
  • Breastfeeding and infant feeding practices
  • Health promotion
  • Group dynamics

Research Supervision: Psychological Basis of Kinesiology

Tim Doherty

Tim Doherty
  • Health promotion
  • Neuromuscular function in health, disease, and aging
  • Rehabilitation of neurological disorders

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Jayne Garland

Jane Garland
  • Motor Control
  • Stroke Rehabilitation

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Jen Irwin

Jen Irwin
  • Obesity prevention and treatment
  • Motivational interviewing and life coaching interventions
  • Promotion of health-related physical activity and dietary intake behaviors
  • Tobacco and smoking behaviors

Research Supervision: Psychological Basis of Kinesiology

Alexandre Legros

Alexandre Legros
  • Bioelectromagnetics
  • Electroencephalography
  • Therapeutic Brain Stimulation

Research Supervision: Psychological Basis of Kinesiology

Manuel Montero-Odasso

Manuel Montero-Odasso
  • The relationship between cognition and mobility in the elderly
  • Gait as an early predictor of frailty and dementia
  • Falls prevention in older people with cognitive impairment

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Rob Petrella

Rob Petrella
  • Laboratory and community-based study of:
    • Healthy aging and mobility
    • Cardiovascular risk factor prevention, management and control

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Jane Thornton

Jane Thornton
  • Physical activity for the prevention and treatment of chronic disease
  • Injury and illness prevention in sport
  • Long term athlete health
  • Female athlete health
  • Rowing Injuries

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences

Tim Wilson

Tim Wilson
  • Development of novo digital anatomical learning objects from human and animal volumetric data
  • Evaluation of digital learning objects as they pertain to the study of education practices
  • Advancing the knowledge base concerning human perception, training and education creating models for future pedagogic practice

Research Supervision: Integrative Biosciences